AThe Province Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Friday, August 07, 1992 - Page 8
Chess Greats Play For $5M Rematch
(UPI)—In an opening move for a $5-million rematch, arch-rival chess champs Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky met in a Belgrade restaurant for their first game in 20 years, Tanjug news agency reported yesterday.
Fischer, former world champion and an American, pulled out a pocket-size chess board and arranged the pieces right after greeting the Russian Spassky on Wednesday night, Tanjug said.
They began by analyzing their last match, which was played in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1972.
Tanjug did not say who won.
The two came to Belgrade after agreeing to play a $5-million-US rematch of their Reykjavik encounter organized by Jezdimir Vasiljevic, the owner of Jugoskandik, a private Serbian bank.
The match is to begin Sept. 2 in Montenegro's Adriatic resort of Sveti Stefan. The winner will get $3.5 million; the loser will get the rest of the prize money.
It was still unknown whether the match would violate a United Nations ban on financial transactions with Serbia and Montenegro, which underwrote the Serbian offensive in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Chess Greats Play For $5M Rematch 07 Aug 1992, Fri The Province (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Newspapers.com
